Elephant Rumblings: Rough weekend for A’s pitching staff

A’s Coverage:

• Hall: Athletics fall 8-2 to Rays in series finale...
• Gallegos: A’s take the measure of themselves after split...
• Kawahara: A’s drop series finale to Rays, 8-2...
• Poindexter: A’s week in review — Solid work on the field is tempered by gloomy news off of it... ($)
• Kawahara: Side issue halts A’s left-hander Sean Manaea’s rehab...
• Slusser: A’s need starters just as Marco Estrada begins working way back...
• Tafur: Plug and play — With closer Blake Treinen out, A’s turn the job over to Liam Hendriks... ($)

Best of AN:

• Baker-Gillman: Game #80 — SundA’s Bloody SundA’s...
• Iversen: Oakland A’s place Blake Treinen on injured list, recall Brian Schlitter...
• Hall: Oakland A’s pitcher Frankie Montas suspended 80 games for drug violation...
• Nico: Blogfather Picks Wrong Week To Stop Sniffing Glue...
• Hall: Oakland A’s prospect watch — Sheldon Neuse going ham in Triple-A...
• Hall: Finn the Bat Dog is the Most Valuable Pup of the Triple-A Las Vegas Aviators...
• Fatrolf’s Sunday Sketches: If Life Is A Box of Chocolates Edition...

MLB News:

• Randhawa: Here are the finalists for All-Star Starters Election...
• Collier: Nationals release reliever Trevor Rosenthal...
• Lennon: Newsday’s Tim Healey explains incident with Mets manager Mickey Callaway...
• Toribio: Rays place righty Diego Castillo on IL with right shoulder inflammation...
• Heyman: Twins sign righty Cody Allen to minor league deal...
• Bowman: Braves option struggling starter Mike Foltynewicz to Triple-A...
• Keri: The 30 — The Yankees make another heist, a quandary in Oakland and the Astros’ reasons for optimism... ($)

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Stark: The Useless Info Dept., Dude, Where’s My Coors? Edition... ($)
• Szymborski: The ZiPS (Almost) Midseason Update — American League...
• Clemens: Do Hard Throwers Allow Fewer Home Runs per Fly Ball?
• Gammons: Revisiting the trade deadline that changed baseball forever... ($)
• Lindbergh: Mike Trout’s Consistently Great, and the Angels Are Consistently .500...
• Callahan: Introducing aRBI+...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1953 — The Braves sign 17-year-old Joey Jay from Middletown, Connecticut, making him the first Little League player to make it to the major leagues.
• 1984 — Oakland’s Joe Morgan hits his 265th career home run as a second baseman, breaking Rogers Hornsby’s major-league record for that position. Morgan, who has 267 home runs overall, connects off Frank Tanana in the 1st inning of the A’s 4 - 2 win over Texas.

Best of Twitter:

• Somehow, teams still haven’t learned...

• One of the highlights of Friday’s Bark at the Park night...

• This is pretty neat...